Actor Timothy Olyphant has played U.S. marshals on TV three times, each time on a show with a one-word title: Seth Bullock on Deadwood, Raylan Givens on Justified, and Dick “Deafy” Wickware on the fourth and current season of Fargo.
The Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom is one of the great officers of state. The position is hereditary in the Howard family, and is currently held by the 18th Duke of Norfolk.
Amongst other duties, the Earl Marshal is the leading officer of the College of Arms, and is responsible for great occasions of state, such as the coronation of a monarch and state funerals.
Jim Marshall was a defensive end in the National Football League, playing for the Cleveland Browns (1960) and Minnesota Vikings (1961-1979). Marshall started in 270 consecutive NFL games, setting a record which lasted until quarterback Brett Favre broke it in 2009.
In addition to his streak of consecutive starts, Marshall is known for a play in a 1964 game against the San Francisco 49ers: Marshall recovered a fumble by the 49ers, and ran it into the end zone for what he thought was a touchdown. However, he had gotten turned around on the play, and had run into his own end zone. After crossing the goal line, he threw the football out of the end zone, scoring a safety for the 49ers.
Cal’s Roy “Wrong Way” Riegels picked up a fumble in the 1929 Rose Bowl, returning it 69 yards to his own 1 yard line. The subsequent punt was blocked, leading to a safety for Georgia Tech. Riegels played well in the second half, but Cal lost 8-7, with the safety the difference.
Often cited as the worst blunder in college football, Riegels learned to laugh at his error, and would send letters to other athletes who made similar mistakes. He sent a letter to Jim Marshall in 1964, reading, “Welcome to the club.”
Members of Pasadena’s Valley Hunt Club first staged the Rose Bowl Parade in 1890. Since then the parade has been held in Pasadena every New Year’s Day, except when January 1 falls on a Sunday. In that case, it is held on the subsequent Monday, January 2. This exception was instituted in 1893, as organizers did not wish to disturb horses hitched outside Sunday church services.
The first Rose Bowl football game was held on January 1, 1902. Originally called the Tournament East-West Football Game, it was the first post-season football game in America. Michigan trounced Stanford 49-0, which resulted in football being replaced by Roman-style chariot races for several years. Football was permanently reinstated in 1916.
To date there’s only been one quarterback to start in a Rose Bowl, a Super Bowl, and a CFL Grey Cup: Joe Kapp.
Andy Capp is an English newspaper comic strip, originally created by cartoonist Reg Smythe in 1957. The strip depicts the title character, a working-class (though perpetually unemployed) man, along with his long-suffering wife Flo. The Capps live in Hartlepool, a harbor town in northeastern England.
Although Smythe died in 1998, the strip continues on, and still runs in the Daily Mirror, among other newspapers.
Alfred Gerald Caplin (better known as Al Capp) was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li’l Abner, which he created in 1934 and continued writing and (with help from assistants) drawing until 1977. Several of his characters (such as the Shmoo and the Kigmy) became merchandising tie-ins, and the strip even inspired a Broadway musical.
Even in its day his work was considered ground-breaking, and several terms and creations of his have made their way into popular culture — such as the fictional locale of ‘Dogpatch’ becoming a synonym for someplace especially isolated and off the beaten path; his perpetual spinster and husband-hunter Sadie Hawkins spawning the events which became known as “Sadie Hawkin’s Dances”; and an especially secretive location about which little was known being referred to as “the skunk works”, which was appropriated and used by Clarence ‘Kelly’ Johnson of Lockheed Aircraft as the pseudonym for their research and development branch which resulted in such aircraft as the P-38 ‘Lightning’, the P-80 ‘Shooting Star’ (the first successful jet fighter deployed by the US military) and the XR-71 ‘Blackbird’.
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The P-38 Lightning was original to be named “Atalanta,” in the Lockheed company tradition of naming aircraft after celestial and mythological figures, but early versions supplied to the British were dubbed “Lightning,” and the name stuck.
Other items that picked up names from the British included the Sherman and Stuart tanks and the P-51 Mustang.
Not in play: I wanted to tie Joe Kapp, Jim Marshall, and the CFL together, but I was too slow…
Richard Bong, a native of Superior, Wisconsin, was the U.S.'s top flying ace during World War II, having been credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft. Bong, who was a major in the U.S. Army Air Forces, flew a P-38 Lightning fighter plane.
While he was testing a P-80 Shooting Star in August, 1945, Bong’s plane suffered a mechanical failure; he ejected from the plane, but was too low for his parachute to deploy, and he was killed.
In the 1950s, the U.S. Air Force began to build Bong Air Force Base in his home state of Wisconsin (near Kenosha), but the project was abandoned in 1959. The land for the base was eventually sold to the state of Wisconsin, and became the Richard Bong State Recreation Area. Due to Bong’s name also being the slang term for a water pipe, signs for the recreation area are frequently stolen.
The Ford Mustang got a big boost in European popularity a year after it was introduced. A Mustang was driven in a race in the French hit film " A Man and a Woman. The star of the film was Jean-Louis Trintiignant, whose uncle, a famous racing driver, was killed in a crash 30 years earlier.
“Star” and “killed”
Cougar, Stiletto, and Allegro were all considered by Ford as names for the Mustang.
Besides the Mustang, other car models named after horses include the Pinto, Bronco, Maverick, Colt, and Pony.
According to Merriam-Webster, ‘maverick’ is the term used to denote “an unbranded range animal; especially a motherless calf”.
I suppose it could refer to an unbranded wild horse, but they were generally considered to be ‘broncos’.
In play — in the 1950s-1960s, there was a Spanish motor vehicle company named after a horse. Pegaso (from Pegasus) built mostly trucks, but in the 1950s they did produce approximately 100 Z-102 sports cars in the 1950s. The cars were, in many ways, advanced for the time, as they had a five-speed rear-mounted transaxleand very powerful all-aluminum DOHC engines. They were offered with the choice of Touring, Saoutchik), Serra, or Enasa’s own luxury bodies. The Z-102 was the fastest production car sold in 1953 and was capable of reaching 155 miles per hour (249 km/h).
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The Dallas Mavericks might beg to differ, as their logo is a horse.
Carry on.
Who knows about them Texans and how they think…? 
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In play: the red “flying horse,” or Pegasus, logo has long been associated with Mobil (now part of ExxonMobil).
The logo was first created by Vacuum Oil Company, a predecessor company to Mobil, in 1911, which also held the trademark for “Mobilgas.” Vacuum Oil merged with the Standard Oil Company of New York (a.k.a. “Socony”) in 1931; the merged company was initially called Socony-Vacuum Corp., before becoming Socony Mobil Oil Company in 1955, and then simply Mobil Oil in 1966.
Wikipedia also agrees with Bicycle Bill’s post about mavericks typically being unbranded cattle. It doesn’t mention a horse at all.
In play:
The logos of Ferrari and Porsche both have a horse.
The Ferrari logo, the cavallino rampante or prancing horse, comes from, as Enzo Ferrari himself tells the tale, when he was visiting Count Enrico Baracca and Countess Paolina Baracca, the parents of famed Italian WWI fighter pilot Francesco Baracca. The Countess suggested Enzo put the prancing horse their son had painted on the side of his plane during the war on Ferrari’s race cars for good luck.
The Porsche logo has a black rearing horse in the center. It comes from the city of Stuttgart’s coat of arms, or city seal, which has included horses it its design since the 1300s. Not only was this an homage to where the company was based and returned to life after hiding in Gmund during WWII, Porsche sees the wild animal as an expression of the company’s forward-thrusting power.
Not in play: The Ford Maverick logo is a longhorn.